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Monday, January 2, 2012

glimmer

My wonderful new dorothy-esque slippers, - A happy christmas-time trade with Erandi Gutierrez of Goldenponies.
I instantly fell in love with these because i am completely enthralled by anything glittery. (like most girls, right!) What's even better is that Goldenponies shoes are handcrafted by Erandi in Mexico.

I think this obsession all started in kindergarten when my mum covered her childhood tap shoes in silver glitter and surprised me with them, so i could go to school dressed as a tightrope walker on a circus themed day. I even had a little tulle skirt and a purple leotard adorned with jewels. My most remembered childhood outfit! I also used to wear it when running around in the backyard playing real life mortal kombat with the neighbouring kids.

(On another note, I have tap shoes covered in glitter too - except they're gold and I made them a couple of years ago to just wear randomly, which is probably sort of embarrassing considering yours were from from you were little & part of a costume!)

Also, not to get all booky on you, but in Baum's original story, Dorothy's slippers were silver! They were only made ruby for the Judy Garland film (presumably because Hollywood found the overarching theme of Baum's story- which focused on the sickened state of the American economy- to be a little too severe for its viewers).